The Candy Man

A Mexican artist living in Florida has played upon one of the music world’s easiest puns. Enrique Ramos used more than a thousand M&Ms to create a portrait of—guess who?—Eminem. The work has been acquired by Ripley’s, which will hang the piece in one of its exhibit halls. As you might expect, Ramos, while industrious, isn’t exactly a trailblazer. The halfbakery had recipes for Eminem M&Ms years ago, and when the rapper gained weight a few years back, headline writers had a field day.

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